Tamil short-tail congers live on the “sandy bottom of shallow waters” and are “carnivores, mostly (feeding) on small crustaceans and fishes,” study co-author T. T. Ajith Kumar told McClatchy News via ...

Sure enough, researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Ariosoma tamilicum, or the Tamil short-tail conger. Tamil short-tail conger eels have “stout” bodies reaching up to 12 ...